Background: Geographical Information System is a new tool in environmental epidemiology that makes the opportunity of visualization and analysis of spatial data. The aim of this study was to determine the geographic variation of low birth weight using geographic information system in order to evaluate the efficacy of primary health care and health information system. Methods: Low birth weight r...

in order to determine optimum landuses (in accordance with natural capability) and improve the current land management, landuse planning process was applied by using gis. within the framework of system analysis approach basic ecological and socio-economic , data were mapped. the mapped data were digitized and imported to idrisi and arc/info to build a database ,along with other descriptive data...

background:although intellectual disability (id) is a common disability in iran, there is no investigation on the spatial distribution pattern of these patients in national level and the spatial maps for recognition the areas with higher prevalence of ids and local neighborhoods of these regions or effect of socio-demographic factor on this scattering is not still available. this proposition mo...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is a disease with high disabling disorders and considerable social and economic impacts. this study was conducted to analyze the spatial distribution of ms disease in tehran, iran during 2001-2012.the existing information in the ms patients' medical files who had registered in iranian ms society (imss), located in tehran office, was used for analysis. the relationship be...

ecotourism as the most attractive subset of the tourism industry can contribute to natural resource conservation and local development. although great numbers of people annually visit abbasabad area, in veresk, mazandaran, to enjoy its brilliant landscape and moderate ecologic condition, there is no applicable plan for many natural attractive zones in this area. as a result, some specific well ...

water use productivity is one of the most important factors in scientific agriculture. it is equal to 0. 7 kg of production per cubic meter of irrigation water (kg/m3) in iran which is very low in comparison with advanced countries (1 to 2 kg/m3). current research studies temporal and spatialchanges of water use productivity in hamedan province in iran using geographic information system (gis),...

GIS is a technology with the potential to transform government by enhancing business processes and providing a platform to manage spatial and non-spatial data, which is expected to result in better decision-making. However, little is known about how this technology is actually implemented organization-wide and the environment surrounding its use. Current GIS maturity models have not examined us...

background: geographical information system is a new tool in environmental epidemiology that makes the opportunity of visualization and analysis of spatial data. the aim of this study was to determine the geographic variation of low birth weight using geographic information system in order to evaluate the efficacy of primary health care and health information system.   methods: low birth weight...